Is Envy Worse in a Free Society? [Open College transcript]

We’re posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the eleventh:

OC11: Is Envy Worse in a Free Society? “Is a free and open society more susceptible to the dangers of envy? It’s an interesting question because most often the envy charge is used against socialism, or any kind of outcome-egalitarian form of society. The argument there goes like this: Socialism is just based on envy! Socialism is motivated by this anti-rich sentiment, anti-success, envious feelings by those people less successful, less wealthy, and so forth …”

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Future transcripts include:
* Should We Blame Keynes for Everything?
* Eight Socialists Define Socialism
* On Being the Entrepreneur of Your Life
* Sex with Robots—Why Not?
* Arguing About Religion
* Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists
* Manifest Destiny—Wasn’t

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